Lindokuhle Skhosana is fundraising for ECD Nutrition and WASH project

by Zero2Five Trust

uThukela, KZN Education

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R 400

Funded to date

R 2,000

Goal

An estimated 2.8 million children annually throughout Africa do not reach the age of five due to illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia. In an effort to help reduce child mortality and encourage the life-saving habit of washing hands with soap, Zero2Five Trust launched a large-scale WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) pilot programme at 15 unfunded Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres in KZN in 2019.

The Zero2Five Nutrition & WASH programme has reached over 4500 children at unfunded ECD Centres in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. The initiative, which forms part of a holistic nutrition; education and capacity building programme at these centres, has been scaled up in early 2020 when COVID-19 reached our shores and since then includes 31 centres in KZN and a further 150 centres in the Eastern Cape.

Our mission is to promote holistic Early Childhood Development (ECD) in disadvantaged areas by improving the learners' health and education outcomes through nutrition and education programmes. We help children reach their developmental milestones, in their formative years, which enables them to achieve their full potential and allows for a safe and prosperous future life.

Adopting a two-pillar approach, the initiative focusses on a teachers’ training programme which aids in mothers, ECD supervisors, teachers and other staff becoming ‘agents of change’ and an interactive pre-school programme to change the hygiene practices of pre-school children and their parents.

Teachers and all other adult promoters are used as facilitators to educate the children under the age of 5 about the importance of well-balanced nutrition, the correct method of hand washing and to encourage them to wash their hands with soap during five specific occasions. This is done through interactive educational activities, like songwriting, games, comic books and pledges over a period of 6 months.

Thanks to Different.Org and its wonderful donors, 10 unfunded, rural ECD sites in the uThukela District in KZN, all of which are without a connection to municipal water, will receive training workshops and a mobile, pre-school hand washing station which has proven to be a huge success at several schools throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They will furthermore be supported with fortified, instant breakfast porridges and get assistance with setting up food gardens to sustain their daily offerings of 3 healthy, nutritious meals.

Project activity

29

Sep

Allocated R100 to Lindokuhle Skhosana is fundraising for ECD Nutrition and WASH project 4 years, 6 months ago

Lindokuhle Skhosana has updated their profile picture on their #doDifferent Activist page and completed step 2 of Becoming an Activist. Their NGO received R100 to make a difference in South Africa
Allocated R300 to Lindokuhle Skhosana is fundraising for ECD Nutrition and WASH project 4 years, 6 months ago

Lindokuhle Skhosana signed up as a #doDifferent activist completed step 1 of Becoming an Activist. Their NGO received R300 to make a difference in South Africa

Lindokuhle Skhosana is fundraising for ECD Nutrition and WASH project

by Zero2Five Trust

uThukela, KZN Education

Project activity

Funded to date:

R 400

Funding goal: R 2,000

NGO: Zero2Five Trust

Start: 29th September 2021

End: 30th November 2021